CVE-2020-11651
SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
- Published
- Apr 30, 2020
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- May 5, 2020
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.9%
- Model date
- Oct 17, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
An issue was discovered in SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2. The salt-master process ClearFuncs class does not properly validate method calls. This allows a remote user to access some methods without authentication. These methods can be used to retrieve user tokens from the salt master and/or run arbitrary commands on salt minions.
Sources
modules/auxiliary/gather/saltstack_salt_root_key.rb
Metasploit Framework modulesDeclared conditions
- verification: check_not_declared($.auxiliary_gather/saltstack_salt_root_key.check)
saltstack/CVE-2020-11651
SaltStack Information Disclosure Leads to Privilege Escalation (CVE-2020-11651)
Vulhub vulnerability labsDeclared conditions
- lab image version: vulhub/saltstack:2019.2.3(saltstack/CVE-2020-11651/docker-compose.yml:services.saltstack.image)
modules/exploits/linux/misc/saltstack_salt_unauth_rce.rb
Metasploit Framework modulesDeclared conditions
- platform: Python,Unix($.exploit_linux/misc/saltstack_salt_unauth_rce.platform)
- verification: check_declared($.exploit_linux/misc/saltstack_salt_unauth_rce.check)
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